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Critical Assessment of Function Annotation

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The Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) is an experiment designed to provide a large-scale assessment of computational methods dedicated to predicting protein function.[1]

Different algorithms are evaluated by their ability to predict the Gene Ontology (GO) terms in the categories of Molecular Function and Biological Process. The experiment consists of two tracks: (i) the eukaryotic track, (ii) the prokaryotic track. In each track, a set of targets is provided by the organizers. Participants are expected to submit their predictions by the submission deadline, after which they are assessed according to a set of specific metrics.
  1. ^ Radivojac, P.; et al. (2013). "A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction". Nature methods. 10: 221–227. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)